This is going smooth as silk." Thus, with only days to go, NASA
Spokesman Jim Kukowski ebulliently described the final launch
preparations for next week's flight of the Challenger space shuttle.
Lift-off for the eighth mission of NASA'S Space Transportation System,
known as STS-8, is scheduled for Aug. 30 at 2:15 a.m. at the Kennedy
Space Center in Florida, just two months after Challenger's historic
flight carrying the first American woman into space. That is the
shortest turnaround time yet between shuttle flights. This time...